I have been given a sneak peek at Adobe’s new A.I. art generator called Firefly. It is currently in beta and by invitation only.
You can give this thing a bit of text and it will interpret your words and make something for you.
My prompt for the following pictures was “futuristic city with blue and white colors. Early evening. View from a nearby hill.”
Great article over at DEV.TO about taking a step back from A.I. research to give the process a chance to establish safety guidelines around its development.
So many movies have been made on this subject.
Terminator
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Westworld
The Matrix
I, Robot
Transformers
Wall-E
Ex Machina
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Just to name a few.
Link to the article is here.
The frightening part of artificial intelligence hasn’t happened yet. Sentience. Once the machines achieve that, many believe it would be all over for the human race. There would be no chance to put that genie back in the box.
I think the end would come quickly. Who knows, they might decide to keep a few of us around for museum pieces for their robot friends.
It could all be mitigated if they never have access to the very things that could destroy us like guns, missiles, etc. However, there are many ways to end human existence. Since they can live in a vacuum, why not just go up to space and hurl a few asteroids down at us? The possibilities are endless.
So yes, I’ve signed the document asking the community to pump the brakes on A.I. development. Will they stop? Nope. We have no idea who is working on what. We have only our faith in humanity and well…humans suck.
This is what a propane tank explosion in a car looks like. Typical propane vapor pressures are 8-14 bar in warm weather. Imagine Hydrogen at 700+bar in a similar sized tank… pic.twitter.com/BUiLjLADIu
— Tesla Technicals (@TeslaTechnics) March 31, 2023
One of my favorites, to be sure.
A new species of ancient beaver that was rediscovered by researchers in The University of Texas at Austin’s fossil collections has been named after Buc-ee’s, a Texas-based chain of popular travel centers known for its cartoon beaver mascot.
I am traveling this week. No where exotic.
Just back to PA for a few days for work. It is nice to be back for a little while but I do miss home.
I’m going to a place I’ve never been to before this evening. I may be able to grab some photos and if so, I’ll post them here.
Todaloo.
Update: As promised, a couple of photos. I should have taken more pictures but I didn’t.
Not only is it St. Patrick’s Day but it would have been my grandmother’s birthday today.
Here are some great links from the 1440 newsletter.
I was in the military so I have fought for all Americans and their right to say whatever they want whether or not I agree with it. That is the deal and thats how this works.
Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert said some pretty wild stuff that has newspapers cancelling his cartoon in mass numbers.
So what now?
Why cancel the cartoon? What did the cartoon do? Did he say these things in the cartoon? No. This is an example of attacking someone personally because you don’t agree with what they are saying. Here is the logic from a newspaper article on the subject.
In a letter from the editor, The Oregonian’s Therese Bottomly wrote, “Some readers will no doubt deride my decision as an example of ‘overly woke’ culture or as a knee-jerk politically correct response. What about free speech, they might ask. Isn’t this censorship? No one is taking Adams’ free speech rights away. He is free to share his abhorrent comments on YouTube and Twitter so long as those companies allow them. This also isn’t censorship; it’s editing. Editors make decisions every day about what to publish, balancing the need to inform against the possibility of offending reader sensibilities.”
Fuck reader sensibilities. If you don’t like what you are reading or looking at, don’t read it or look at it. She is describing censorship and disguising it as editing.
